Introducing Sir Joshua the Genius and his trusty sidekick, Tiesto!

Well, looking back on my life as a wed babiless sort I have realized three things. One, I got way too much sleep and was very lazy. Two, I was very irresponsible! I believe I did not grow up until they handed me Joshua! No mother should take on a dog and a son unless she is a bit loopy, very head strong and does not have a job outside of homemakeing.


So what does a day in the life look like! Well, today was hilariuos for several reasons. One, Joshua and Two Tiesto! I've dubbed them Sir Joshua the Genius and his trusty sidekick, Tiesto. The reason shall become apparent.

Joshua and I had to get up and leave in a rush to get to the Honda place for the car to get her check up. We dropped it off 20 minutes late, apologizing profusely and then scurried to Denny's for breakfast. Joshua didn't really eat yesterday so I thought I would get him a grand slam(and share it with him, of course) to celebrate his recovery. We did just that and he was visiting nicely with the folk at the next table who affirmed my suspicions that he is a genius. He was very cordial until their food came before ours. It was at that point that he began such a scuffle in my lap to get down and go over and get their food that it looked like I hadn't fed him since Sunday!! So, I thought he was going to scarf down breakfast with all the speed and enthusiasm of Tiesto after any thing Joshua drops. So the Slam arrives and Joshua eats 1.5 pieces of Toast and one sausage. That is it! (Later he ate two more as elevenzies) So we(I) ate the rest of the breakfast and paid our bill and left. The waitress was really nice and helped me so much! Don't worry I tipped her. We really needed a little spoiling after yesterday.

So then we walked around a little bit and back to Honda to get our Goldie(Goldie Hawnda, get it?). We were off home. So then down for a nap. 1 hour later, he is awake and doesn't know what he wants, drink, eat, mommy, playing, not playing . . .so we watch baby signs while he decides. That made him happy.

Then off to the vet for the other baby. Tiesto, all 73 pounds of him climbed into my car. And we were off. When we arrived, Mark called and I spoke to him while I put the baby in the back pack, the back pack on my back, around to the other side of the car, get the dog, the grocery bag full of paperwork and my wallet, said goodbye to my husband. I went to put the phone in the center console and bumped(not hard) my baby's head on the roof while pulling the car door close to my butt because the dog had walked around to the other side of the bloody car door so when I pulled him close I was shutting us into the car! So now I had a screaming 16 month old on my back in my back pack. So around the leg went the leash, off the back came the back pack, out of the back pack came the baby and there was much consoleing.(Are you all rolling on the floor laughing yet?) So then we all get put back together and I am already sweating, so much for looking like the Mary Kay lady that has it all together.(Did I mention it was like 80 in the shade today?) We go into the vets, where my normally confident and bouncey pup decides that he has never been to this place before(this is true) and so he was going to go slooowwwwllllyyyyy into the building. I had arrived 15 minutes early, but had used up most of that time getting whipped in the car park! So I get up to the check in desk and the place is freakin' hoppin' like a bar in Harrogate on Saturday night!

So an hour later, every thing done we are on our way home. I have been trying to teach Tiesto that when Fetch is done it is done, that means no freakin' trying to grab the bloody toys out of my hands. I apparently needed to have a come to Jesus with him about it because Joshua, who would not go to sleep to save his life, was wanting me to pick him up.(Later, I realized because he wanted Tiesto's toys) He was on the back porch and I was walking up to him and told Tiesto all done. However, he decided that I was distracted with Joshua and so he was going to make a grab. In so doing, he pushed Joshua onto his bum, before I could grab Joshua, or move the dog(because they out number me) Joshua laid back onto the porch with a tiny bump(this is why it is funny, no one was injured in the making of this insanity) and just laid there screaming. While Tiesto, believing he had me right where he wanted me(he is having a wheaties week) kept grabbing at the toys. I put the toys on the table and snatched up Joshua. The dog(now tall enough to reach over the table) sniffs madly round the table like some nut and I'm striving not to destroy the fur baby because he has no idea it was his fault! Joshua was fine as soon as I picked him up because as I soon realized he got what he wanted, his mom to stop playing with Tiesto and play with him and give him Tiesto's toys! I was shocked! They both try to play me all freakin' day!

At this realization I marched into the house with dog and baby and made Joshua play with his own toys and Tiesto play with his own toys. However, as I played ball with Joshua, Tiesto became increaseingly annoying trying to get in the game. Joshua and I crawled all over him for a bit and petted him and fussed him up. Then we resumed our game, Tiesto just got up, walked over and took the ball! He knows that is going to get him in trouble, so into the crate he goes. This goes on all day every day and I feel confident that Joshua and Tiesto are going to figure out at some point that if they stop trying to vie for attention and steal each others' toys life is a very peaceful place!

Joshua still wouldn't sleep but today is Tiesto bath day(this happens every fifth of the month so he can get his flea treatment on the sixth of the month). The funny thing about these two is while they go back and forth over toys, Tiesto follows him every where and Joshua loves catching a pet whenever he can. He even loves kissing him! It is adorable, in a lot of ways they remind me of siblings! For instance, while at the vet's office they had to do some tests on Tiesto, naturally, he got upset and tense, Joshua realizing that started crying in the back pack, which got Tiesto more upset. Another nurse had to be called and then it was sorted! So bath time, Joshua was overloaded from the day(who wouldn't be?) and was crying in the play pen next to the tub. I'm knee deep in the tub with my beast bathing him and Tiesto is so happy about this bath! I couldn't believe it. But for some reason chose to leap out of the deep jacuzzi tub! I had lifted the 73 pounds into the tub, now I had to get out and lift 75 pounds(cause he is dripping wet) back into the tub. I managed to do that without going head first in after him, but only because I caught myself on the side. Joshua wanted to be in the same tub that yesterday he told me off for putting him into! I was like, honestly, Joshua! Well, I did not put him in the tub with us because I know that three in a tub is bad. Didn't the baker, the butcher and the candlestick maker disappear down a river that way?

So my clothes wet through the dog bathed and happy, the baby screaming mad, we all went back outside to watch the sunlight fade and hear the birds settle for the night and watch the "birds that drink blood" come out. I say that because I saw a misquito going to Joshua, he saw it and made the bird sign. I died laughing, "Yes, Joshua they are the size of birds here." I snatched him up and we were all back inside safe and sound! Whew! What a day! It is days like this that remind me that I need to pray more!